July 7, 2014Excellent solo plate from Flowdan (Flow Dan?) here, released on Hyperdub last month, continuing on with the label’s stunning ten year anniversary releases. It couldn’t be more aptly named, as there’s not a phone-in moment on Serious Business, just proper badman MC work from one of the scene’s finest mic men, instantly recognisable from his dark and menacing tones. We…
July 4, 2014It was only two months ago that we were blessed with the opening of the Montana Colors store in Sydney. It’s a much needed space in a city where paint is hard to come by outside of a select few stores, generally overpriced and sometimes dished out by a human server with a serious elitism complex. I’ve often felt that…
July 2, 2014Just launched from photographer Kevin Couliau comes Asphalt Chronicles, a new independent publication showcasing pick-up basketball across the world through imagery. Couliau is an amazing photographer and his love of the game has seen him photographing it in more than fifty countries across the globe since 2004. Each limited issue of Asphalt Chronicles will focus on a different region, exhibiting Couliau’s photographs in…
June 30, 2014Our favourite residency has rolled round once again, and we’re up to the third instalment of In The Heat Of The Night at Snugg in Brixton. Jimmy Monsta Funk takes over the venue with cohort; wholly organic, no hype, just vibes for a quality few hours of top notch record selection. If nothing else, you’ve got to give them props…
June 28, 2014There’s a tragic school of thought that properly composed electronica (specifically music often tied to that horrible term IDM) essentially spearheaded downwards when Richard D. James stopped releasing as Aphex Twin. These beliefs can only belong to those people who’ve slept on the ever-wonderful Skam catalogue, and more importantly the work of VHS Head. VHS Head is the moniker of…
June 27, 2014Through collaboration with Refugee Week and My Journey, seven migrants to London have produced illustrations to share their journeys as refugees through their own eyes. Pleasantly surprised about the varying formats, lengths and most importantly message. Thought I knew what I was in store for, but the underlying message of getting “swallowed up” by the new home city and the…
June 25, 2014Archive just gone up from last week’s Awkward Movements show on NTS Radio, and despite a bit of a moody schizophrenic start we hit stride pretty quickly dropping some of favorite plates and tapes of the moment. That amazing Jon Hassell remix 12″ on All Saints featured twice, as did the Rajasthan Street Music 2xLP on Sublime Frequencies, both must-have…
June 23, 2014Just seen the details around this exhibition, had to share it as it looks amazing. Earlier this month, Return of the Rudeboy kicked off its ten-week residency at Somerset House, celebrating ‘rudie‘ style culture in proper form. Birthed in Jamaica, Rudeboy (note the capital ‘R’) culture was integrated in to London during the ’70s and ’80s, defined by attitude, and identified through…
June 20, 2014Jesus, talk about pulling out the big guns. This is probably the best dedicated remix plate I’ve ever come across, and not only in the names that’ve stepped in for the reworkings (out to the label, All Saints, for some of the best curation and pairings we’ve seen) but the sheer quality is just fantastic. The trumpeter Jon Hassell has…
June 18, 2014An absolutely fantastic release this, pairing a label that I feel I’ll come to love and an artist I need to dig deeper to find more from. Charles Hayward, as a founding member of This Heat, has boasted his own following and stamp on the experimental scene since the band’s inception int he seventies. After This Heat he continued to…